Detachable shoe-heel



S. SOLARZ.

DETACHABLE SHOE HEEL. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 3. 192].

1,383,436, Patented July 5, 1921.

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STANLEY SOLARZ, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

DETACHABLE SHOE-HEEL.

Application T 0 all whom it may concern:

e it known that I, STANLEY SoLARz, a citizen of Poland, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have-invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable Shoe-Heels, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to new and useful for detachably securing heels to shoes, its main object being the provision of heel fastening devices, requiring .in their application absolutely'no cutting away of parts of the shoe proper, such as sinking large cavities, or embedding parts to render them flush with the surface of the shoe.

hen devices of this kind require careful fitting, skilled labor is'required thereby precluding its popular use. 7

An-object of my invention, is to provide a rubber heel which may be purchased and be applied by any unskilled person, the device being. so simple in construction that it may belaid' flatly on the heel portion of the shoe to bring its edges even with those of the latter, and then betapped gently'with a hammer, whereby the shoe'is caused to be plainly marked or indented, so that the part of the device to be secured to the shoe, may be positively located and simply pegged directly" upon the top surface of the shoe, which concludes the operation. 1 A further object of the invention is to provide an element to be cast into the rubber heel, which-will have no large fiat surface areas such as flat plates, whereby the rubber, as is well known, becomes easily separated from the metal and tends to tear the heel asunder, the heel anchor shown in the present invention being of spider design and of springy metal so that it will retain its shape but yield to the bending of the rubber.

In the drawings: 7

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the heel portion'ofa shoe, showing one of the interlocking elements secured in position thereon.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a rubber heel embodying my invention.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View of the heelof a shoe equipped with the invention.

Specification of Letters Patent.

filed March 3, 1921.

Serial No. 449,281.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the interillocllring element to be cast into the rubber F ig. 5 is a perspective view of the interlocking element to be pegged to the shoe.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary top view of the interlocking elements showing the T'-head connection as-it is initially inserted, and

Fig.- 7 is aside view of same showing the parts in locked position. V

A designates a shoe, and B a shallow heel thereon, C designates a to cooperate with the shoe element D to lock the rubber heel to the shoe. E designates a rubber heel of usual contour having in its under face a circular recess 1 having a flat bottom 2, said recess being of slightly increased diameter, at its top. Buried in the rubber beneath said bottom, and having a centrally disposed upwardly extending shank or stud 3, protruding centrally throughthe rubber, is This anchor element is made of springy steel plate, and is formed with a plurality of short radial arms i, and a long radial arm 5, bent upwardly'at its outer extremity to form a lug 6. The shank 3 is capped with a horizontally disposed T head 7, extending at right angles to the arm 5 and in parallism with the lug 6. The T head is curved upwardly at its ends, so as to form curved under surfaces 8 (Fig. 7). As illustrated in Fig. 3, the element'is slightly spaced from the bottom 2 of the recess 1. the arm extending forwardly longitudinally of the shoe and the tip of the lug 6 protruding slightly above the flat under surface 9, of the rubber heel at a position adjacent the breast '10 of the heel, as is best shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

Fitting into the recess 1, so as to be revoluble therein without too great frictional engagement, is the pan shaped element D, the pan portion thereof being of a height measured from its rim edge 12 to the outer side of its bottom 13, equal to the depth of the recess 1, see Fig. 3. Centrally, in the bottom of the pan, is the elongated aperture 14, adapted to receive loosely, the T head 7 so that the latter may be projected therethrough.

Extending in parallelism with the bottom Patented July 5, 1921.

heel element adapted the anchor element D.

- the fixed heel and extendingforwardly to 13, from the edge 12, and in longitudinal alinement, with the aperture 1 1, is the arm 15, said arm having near its outer end an opening 16, adapted to receive the tip ofthe lug 6. The lug 6 and the opening 16 lie in a circle concentric with the recess 1, so that when vthe T head 7 of the heel, is inserted 1nto5 the aperture .14 of the element on the shoe, (as by placing the heel as indicated by dotted lines tip of the lug will enter the opening 16. Along the edge12 of the element D are a plurality of upstanding teeth bring its edges flush with, a heel portion on the shoe. A

17.7 The'process of mounting the-element D maybe described as follows.

The element is inserted in the heel as above described, bringing the arm 15 to a position indicated in Fig. 2. The heel is nowheld positioned by hand on the shoe to the edges of the ahammer on the top of the rubber heelwill cause the teeth 17 to slightly indent the leather of the shoe. Theelement D. is now removed from the rubber heel andplaced back-on the shoe, care being taken to havethe teeth engage their respective indents in the leather. Pegs or other suitable nails are now inserted in the nail holes 18 and 19 of the element and firmly driven into the leather, the teeth thereby also being driven to bring the edge 12 into engagement with the top of the shoe heel B. Obviously, by

employing the teeth 17, the element is easily and quickly correctly positioned, and as the metal of the element-is very thin the arm 15 need not be sunk flush into the leather, as the nails in the holes 19 drive the armcinto the leather, or mother words, the leather is compressed sufliciently by the blows of the hammer at that'point so as to form a hollow place, with respect to the corners a-a of the heel; Thus no cutting of the heel; is, re-

' quired.- By using a T head as shown, the

curved under sides 8 thereof, operate like a wedgeagainst the edges 20 of the apertures 14, when the heel is turned into alining position. As the .alining position is approached, the rubber-heelis slightly flexed upwardly hand, to permit the lug '16. to pass over the shoe heel, the spring in the metal of the arm 5 imparting a strong spring stress to the heel.-

I claim:

1. In an interchangeable heel and means for attaching the same to shoes, the combination with a fixed heel forming part ofthe shoe,

7 of a fiat shallow circular hollow member secured to the surface of the fixed heel and having a thin plate extension lying flat on the breast thereof, a rectangular opening in the forward part of said plate extension, an elongated opening cut through the center of the top wall of the'circular hollow member in Fig. 1) and theheel is caused to beturned, the

gentle tap with and disposed longitudinally of the'fixed heel, a heel normally fitting over said fixed heel and having a projecting lug adapted to engage said rectangular openlng when said heel is in normal position, arecess in the heel to'the rear of said, lug, a T headed stud extending from the bottom of said recess, the head thereof disposed transversely of said 5 heel and projectable through said elongated opening andadapted to interlockingly engage th'e to-p wall of the circular hollow member when-it is inserted in and turned so as'to beposltioned at right angles to said elongated opening, and a circular wall for said recess concentric with said T headed stud, said wall slidably peripherally surrounding said circulanhollow member, so

that said heel may be bodily rotated on the latter and normally 'held against lateral displacement. r a

a 2.111 a device of the classfdescribed, the

combination withfa fixedshoe heel, a circular fiatztopped hollow-metallicmember secured to the fixed heel, and having avthi'n plate extension lying flat on the heel and extending forwardly to-the breast; thereof, an opening in saidplate extension near the end thereof, a rubber heel normally fitting over said fixed heel having a recess fitting over the body ofsaid hollow member so that said rubber'heel may be bodily rotatedthereon and also held against lateral shifting, a lug on the rubber heel engaging said opening when the heel is in normal position, an elongated opening cutting through the top of said hollow member, and-a T headed stud centrally in said recess, and ex'tendingwith its head through said elongated-opening, the .7

, perforation to detachably hold the flat hol-.

low element locked against rotary and outward movement, and teeth extending down wardly from the under side of the hollow element for the purpose set'forth.

4. In a detachable heel to beus'ed' in con-V nection with a 'fiXed heel, a circular flat hollow member having an elongated opening in its top .and formed with an extending parthaving a perforation near'its outer end, said element being adapted to be-secured to the 1 1 fixed heelpa rubber heel having a recessrevolubly recelvmg said fiat hollow element, a

T headed stud and a lug extending outthe rubber heel and connecting said T Wardly in spaced relation from the rubber headed stud and said lug to permit the latter heel, for engaging respectively said elonto be moved against the stress of the spring 10 gated opening and said perforation whereby steel plate for the purpose set forth.

5 to detachably hold said hollow element In testimony WhereofI affix my signature.

against rotary and outward movement, and

a long narrow spring steel plate buried in STANLEY SOLARZ. 

